formula
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Amy, a working mother with a toddler, said: "He was on formula and it was expensive for the tins. They never had offers or promotions."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Changes to the funding formula for councils under the Fair Funding Review 2.0, external will see money redistributed from some council areas to others.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Starring Maria Sten as a private investigator, this new show on Prime Video follows the entertaining formula of Lee Child’s thriller series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Questions can sometimes emerge over who owns the formula for a product if a relationship between a retailer and a factory ends, said Mark Duedall, a partner at the law firm Baker Donelson.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
A mode often also has a formula that the melody usually uses to arrive at the ending note.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
GP2 and GP3, and their successors F2 and F3, are one-make formulae; everyone has to use the same chassis and engine.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
The Department for Education in England has said students in maths, physics, and combined science exams will be allowed to use formulae and equation sheets.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025
The complex interactions of fluid and soft matter physics prove challenging to simplify into cut-and-dried formulae.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
"Negotiations are not just mathematical formulae but also personal relationships. And trust. Unfortunately, today we are losing a measure of trust in us," Podolyak said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023
He turned his back to the class and began erasing formulae from the slate board.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
This is why I have come to appreciate what I think of as back-pocket formulas: reliable little systems you can make while your brain goes mostly offline.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The states built a kind of clearinghouse to determine standard formulas such as how much capital an insurer must hold against every asset on its books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Myer said current national funding formulas for the police and fire service did not take into account the "seriousness" of the crime people in Teesside faced.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In a settlement agreement reached last year, Conservice agreed to provide any California tenant disputing their bill with copies of invoices and formulas used to determine their specific charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
To create her formulas, Mother took up something called “muscle testing,” which she explained to me as “asking the body what it needs and letting it answer.”
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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